Mia Pearlman

"I make site-specific cut paper installations, ephemeral drawings in both two and three dimensions that blur the line between actual, illusionistic and imagined space. Sculptural and often glowing with natural or artificial light, these imaginary weather systems appear frozen in an ambiguous moment, bursting through walls and windows, or hovering within a room.My process is very intuitive, based on spontaneous decisions in the moment. I begin by making loose line drawings in India ink on large rolls of paper. Then I cut out selected areas between the lines to make a new drawing in positive and negative space on the reverse. 30-80 of these cut paper pieces form the final installation, which I create on site by trial and error, a 2-3 day dance with chance and control. Existing only for the length of an exhibition, this weightless world totters on the brink of being and not being, continually in flux. It is my mediation on creation, destruction, and the transient nature of reality." Site>Mia Pearlman via NYarts

Mariana Abramovic no MoMA

For years, Marina Abramovic was one of those radical artists who make their wildest peers seem tame. As one of the great pioneers of performance art, her medium was herself, and she played fast and loose with it. [...] Those wild years have passed. In "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present," her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art -- the first comprehensive show she's had in the United States -- Abramovic, now 63, has let herself become a work of art like any other. The museum has tamed her. From 14 March to 31 May 2010, a major retrospective and performance recreation is underway at the Museum of Modern Art. During the run of the exhibition, Marina Abramovic is performing "The Artist is Present" a 600-hour static, silent piece, in which she will sit immobile, while spectators are invited to take turns sitting opposite her. She sits at a table in the open atrium, waiting for visitors to sit down and gaze into her eyes. Considering that her other performances have included cutting herself with knives, having guns pointed at her, and lying in a ring of fire, this is a drastic change of pace for Abramovic. Even this, however, will challenge her with her longest performance yet, an 11-week run of staring at strangers. Beyond her performance, the upstairs exhibit has videos and photos from her career, plus five other performances going on with handpicked performers acting out some of her pieces.

In Noteworthy People Stare at The MoMA (aqui podem-se ver mais fotos da performance, que contou com a participação de vários músicos e actores)

Biografia em ArtNews

Anish Kapoor

Nascido em Bombaim e a viver em Londres desde a década de 1970, Anish Kapoor (1954) tem sido uma força vital na arte contemporânea. O seu trabalho é hermético, mas inconfundível, tanto pelas suas impressionantes formas abstractas como também pela utilização de materiais distintos, os tradicionais mármore e bronze e os de alta tecnologia como o aço inoxidável e a fibra de vidro. A beleza da sua obra prende-se em grande parte pela simplicidade e mistério das formas que, juntamente com o seu tamanho e por vezes movimento, criam um enorme impacto visual.

http://www.anishkapoor.com

Tara Donovan

"New York artist Tara Donovan is a master of seeing. Not just looking, but actually seeing. Her sculptural, one-of-a-kind art is based on her ability to see, imagine and create forms, shapes and textures from ordinary objects that most of us don't even notice. She creates art from rolls of tape, pieces of pencil, Styrofoam cups, paper plates, napkins. Her sculptural works evoke thoughts of nature. A perfect example is the 'Untitled' cloud formation she created in 2003 from Styrofoam cups and glue." LINK
Via The Cool Hunter

Minjae Lee

Minjae Lee is a young South Korean artist whose work expresses a semi-disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if you feel that you'd like to. It draws you in with its powerful colors, halting imagery and clever juxtaposition of beauty, innocence and fragility with brash, loud and aggressive. > LINK

FEED via - the cool hunter

Mostra de Curtas - Metragens no Paralelo 38

ENTRADA LIVRE - Mostra de Curtas-Metragens no Paralelo 38


The Arte às Tantas Collective is organizing an exhibition of short-films and video clips in "Paralelo 38" bar, Portugal. This events aims to culturally enrich a social extract with few knowledge on short-film language, trying to instill in the audience artistic expressions with little support in Portugal.



For more information contact us - arteastantas@gmail.com

Mostra de Curtas-Metragens

É já sábado dia 13 de Março que acontece a primeira Mostra de Curtas-Metragens pelo Colectivo Arte Às Tantas no bar Paralelo 38, na praia do Furadouro, Ovar.

A sessão terá início às 22:38.

Alinhamento

"Alma" de Rodrigo Blaas
"Galileo" de Ghislain Avrillon
"Ponto de Luz" de Ricardo Alves e Mercês Gomes - videoclip de Sara Tavares
"MTV Birth" de Xavier Almeida
"At the Dance" de Xavier Almeida
"Spiritus" de Susana Andrez


"10 ways to eliminate a buddhist monk" de Vitor Lopes
"Harmony Korine" de Lasse Hoile - videoclip de Steven Wilson
"Ink" de Nuno Neves
"Monster" de Nuno Neves - videoclip de No Tribe
"Blonde Fire" de Joe Vanhouttegem - videoclip de The Hickey Underworld
"The Ballad of Mary Slade" de Robin Fuller


“Airport Tunnel” de Vitor Hugo – videoclip de OliveTreeDance
"Left-brained Larry and right-brained Rachel" de Sally A. Ward
"Marine" de Alexandre Bernard, Pierre Pages e Damien Laurent
"Nuit Blanche" de Arev Manoukian
"Making of - Nuit Blanche" de Arev Manoukian

Fen Ma Liuming

Ma Liuming began making his nude performance pieces in Beijing in the early 1990’s, usually in front of a small circle of friends. With long hair and feminine features, he uses his androgynous look as an important part of his art and wears make-up to transform his face into his female alter ego, Fen. In the earlier works he would sit naked on a platform, while in later works, such as “Fen Ma Liuming in Lyon (France)” from 2001, he is also drugged with sleeping pills that render him essentially motionless. Those in attendance are then invited to come on stage and take a picture with the artist. Some pose at his feet, others disrobe and sit next to him, most engage the limp body as a prop. Audience reaction varies from country to country. Their expressions vary from amusement to challenge to adoration, but their awareness of the camera (and its importance in provoking their reaction) is never in question.

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Artist Profile: Aaron Noble

Aaron Noble basically translates to paint fragments of comic books.

Artist Profile: Aaron Noble from By Osmosis TV on Vimeo.

Hybrid Illusions

Art by Aude Oliva, MIT Museum - Cambridge

Move backwards for about 3 meters and see Einstein´s features transforming into Marilyn Monroe´s face.

"A hybrid image is a picture that combines the low spatial frequencies of one picture with the high spatial frequencies of another, producing an image with an interpretation that changes with viewing distance or time." For more information > MIT

"Em Exibição" pelo Colectivo Arte às Tantas

O Colectivo Arte às Tantas está de volta com uma nova exposição - Em Exibição.
Uma exposição feita para o Ovarvídeo 2009, de 17 a 22 de Novembro no Centro de Arte de Ovar.

Em Exibição tem como base a interpretação de cartazes de famosos filmes que marcaram o cinema. Reinventado a ambiência e os símbolos presentes nos cartazes, a exposição retrata o imaginário colectivo do cinema, presente na memória de cada um. Desde o suspense e comédia, ao drama e romance, Em Exibição permite sentir, tocar e rever o cinema que persiste no profundo tangível do espectador.

Conta com obras de Bruno Manarte, Bonifácio Baptista, Joel Tavares, Emmanuel Lopes, Ricardo Neto e Susana Andrez.
Vídeo instalação, arte digital, instalação fotográfica, técnica mista e muito mais.

Su

Vlad Artazov - Nail's life

While reading a magazine I found a small chronicle about a photographer from Czech Republic that captured my atention. His name is Vlad Artazov and he recreates situations, feelings and emotions with nails...



Click on this link to see all photos: Nai's life

More of his work here: Vlad Artazov

Kseniya Simonova

Kseniya Simonova é uma artista de performance ucraniana que cria animações com areia. Nascida em 1985, foi a vencedora da versão ucraniana da franquia Got Talent em 2009. Na sua apresentação fez uma animação retratando a vida na União Soviética durante a Grande Guerra Patriótica contra o Terceiro Reich na Segunda Guerra Mundial.

"Sounds from a town I love" (Woody Allen)

This is a short film from Woody Allen and is part of the "Concert for New York City: Live", an event that took place shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. David Bowie, The Who, Jay-Z and other artists participated in the event. Short films were made for the occasion by New York filmmakers as Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese.

"If you hate it, I'll try to make it up to you somehow in the future." (Woody Allen)

Su

Guerilla Girls

"In 1985, a bunch of female artists, incensed by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that included 165 artists but only 17 women, founded the Guerilla Girls. Dubbing ourselves «The Conscience of the Artworld», we started making posters that bluntly stated the facts of discrimination and used humor to convey information, provoke discussion and to show that feminists can be funny. We assumed the names of dead artists, and began wearing gorilla masks when we appeared in public, concealing our true identities and focusing on the issues rather than on our personalities."

Couldn´t think of a better introduction, my apologies, but I hope you enjoy their work.
Here´s the website.

Cinema Português

Para quem quer ver trailers de filmes portugueses, ou ter uma lista desses e ainda visionar curtas-metragens nacionais, aqui ficam dois links:

http://filmesportugueses.com/

http://www.cinemaportugues.info/

Su

Water Fountain

I was looking for this video that I saw once, and now that I found it I want to share it with you. The idea is quit simple, a lot of work to do it, but the result its just amazing...
This is a water foutain display at Canal City in Fukuoka, Japan. It´s a large shopping and entertainment complex. I tried to find the creator(s) of this fountain, but didn´t found it wet.
Enjoy... Video

Vera Mantero - Prémio Gulbenkian Arte 2009

A Bailarina e Coreografa portuguesa Vera Mantero, foi galardoada este ano com o prémio Gulbenkian Arte 2009.

Com uma carreira a contar com duas décadas, inserindo a sua arte em diversos campos artísticos, Vera Mantero justificou a sua carreira numa entrevista a revista "Lusa": "Eu não faço apenas trabalho multidisciplinar. Gosto mesmo de ir roubar às outras áreas o que não encontro na minha".

A Fundação Gulbenkian descreveu Mantero como “uma das artistas mais criativas e singulares da cena nacional, com uma sólida carreira construída ao longo de mais de duas décadas”.

Para os mais interessados nesta notícia, poderão ver no site da Gulbenkian o artigo referente ao prémio que lhe foi atribuido - Vera Mantero - Gulbenkian Arte 2009

Sobre o trabalho desta ilustre bailarina nacional, deixo-vos o link de um video dela, intitulado Poesia e Selvajaria, espero que seja do vosso agrado.

L.V.

Lens Culture - Online Magazine

A "Lens Culture", é uma magazine online, onde visa contemplar a arte contemporânea mais direccionada para a fotografia. Possui uma galeria formidavel, e uma vasta lista de fotografo, assim como entrevistas áudio com os fotografos. Um site que se torna facil de explorar, apelativo ao olhar, e sem duvida alguma de grande interesse para os mais interessados pela fotografia.

De não esquecer que a "Lens Magazine" tem um concurso fotografico a decorrer, com inscrições até 15 de Setembro de 2009. Para mais detalhes no concurso visitem o link a seguir indicado - http://www.lensculture.com/contest.html

Para acederem ao site basta visitarem o link a seguir. Lens Culture

Espero que seja de vosso agrado.

L.V.

Nocturna Artificialia (1979) - The Brothers Quay

“Nocturna Artificialia”- realizado em 1979, é o nome da primeira curta metragem dos norte americanos Irmãos Quay. Esta curta metragem dura aproximadamente 20 min, e está disponivel para visualização no YouTube, dividida em duas parte. Deixo-vos o link de ambas as partes.

primeira parte - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Uaww0yon4

segunda parte - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1SmMpQeVZs

Espero que gostem. Para terem mais informações sobre os Irmãos Quay, vejam os seguintes links:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Quay

• http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=quayretrospective&mode=filmmaker